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Clooney goes into battle with the internet gossips

GEORGE CLOONEY is once again fighting to save the world from evil, but this time he does not need his Batman costume. The Oscar-winning actor is playing himself in a new battle against an internet website that provides maps and addresses of celebrity sightings.

Clooney is leading the Hollywood charge against Gawker, a New York-based gossip website that proudly declares itself to be “sick and psychotic”.

Concerned that the website may be exploited by obsessive fans, Clooney has launched a campaign to discredit it by swamping its celebrity sightings page with bogus reports. In an e-mail distributed by his publicist to other agents, Clooney wrote: “There is a simple way to render these guys useless.”

He went on: “A couple of hundred conflicting sightings and this website is worthless. No need to create new laws to restrict free speech. Just make them useless. That’s the fun of it. And then